17 Responses to “Starship Traveller”

Are those…Football players?!? Deformed football players? Where’s Mutual Chest Groper’s legs? Is Blue player missing half an arm? Where’s the rest of Guy on the Ground’s body? What exactly is Guy on the Ground doing? Nibbling Blue Player’s kneecap off?

I have a feeling the rules here are team against team, and, oh yeah, don’t let the murderbot catch you.

In the locker room before the preliminary trials of this year’s Darwin Awards competition:

“Okay guys, let’s dress up in some inadequate football equipment, then add some inadequate Roman gladiator stuff and then we’ll attack this 10-foot tall invincible titanium robot and not quit until we’re just a mass of bloody stumps. Go Team!”

I… guess… it’s good that amputees can play future football? Ground Guy is going compleat Black Knight, attempting to bite Blue Guy’s kneecaps off. I think Aerial Spiky Guy is wearing some sort of anti-grav belt to be up that high.

At least in the future, men will be forced to wear midriff-displaying shirts.

@Bruce: It makes sense that the robot is the referee, since the players seem to be in a blue team and a red team. Home field advantage for blue team. Also lower limb advantage.

@fred: I can’t tell from this painting whether there are any spectators or not. Is it actually a stadium, or merely a big curved apartment building near a park which these people and bot have taken over for their bizarre game?

@B’mancer: It’s a rather mediocre butt, but it does deserve the “hunkbutt” tag. I’m worried about his spine, rib cage, and back muscles — they look weird.

@Cygnia: heh! (for furriners and non-sportsballers, that joke is both obvious and not far from true)

@BC: That would jibe with my “not a stadium, just guys doing something dumb” theory. At some point, at least one of them said “Hold my beer.”